Degree Information: Ph.D. Temple University 1986

Teaching fields: 19^th century America, working class, migration and ethnicity,                                    Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Appalachia

Research fields:  Labor and working class, religion, economic, ethnic, Appalachian

Recent Publications:

Books: Glass Towns: Industry, Labor and Political Economy in Central                                          Appalachia , 1890-1930s ( University of Illinois, 2006)

Transnational West Virginia : Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940 (West Virginia University Press, 2002)

Articles:  “Transatlantic Craft Migrations and Transnational Spaces: Belgian Window Glass Workers in America , 1880-1920,” Labor History (2004)

“Immigrants, Labor and Capital in a Transnational Context: Belgian Glass Workers in America , 1880-1925,” Journal of American Ethnic History (2002)

Current Research Project:  Protestantism and Class Relations in 20^th Century America